Honest Day's Wage Thesis

Chapter One: Introduction Why capitalism? We often wonder. And argue. And wonder some more. Then argue again, about what, and why it is that some people are given to, or enjoy more success in business and in life than other people do. Is it fate? Is it luck? Manipulation? We are, generally, more apt to accept the rationale, when told to us, that it is beyond our power to affect our individual outcomes. No one listens. Our voices don’t matter. Our votes don’t count. After all, who wants to admit that they failed at something they were so sure and passionate about? That only due to the corruption and greed and bargaining’s of the soul that someone is ever able to gain a level of success that an honest person of means cannot. We are told that if we share to the generality, that then everyone will be able to enjoy the same fruits of their labor that previously only the privileged elite might be granted. In other words-we are all the same. …show more content…
Crazy, I know. But in a world designed around a system of monetary values, it becomes of a necessity to earn what is reverently referred to as an ‘honest day’s wage’. This is not only a matter of survival for an individual in a monetized society, but also supplies the individual incentive to advance personal disciplines and assets. Without the incentive of reward for labor in a monetized, civil society, there is little or no incumbency to neither work nor participate fully in the society civilly; nor to create goods and services to improve and advance the society in